The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 36Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1767 - Books A monthly book announcement and review journal. Considered to be the first periodical in England to offer reviews. In each issue the longer reviews are in the front section followed by short reviews of lesser works. It featured the novelist and poet Oliver Goldsmith as an early contributor. Griffiths himself, and likely his wife Isabella Griffiths, contributed review articles to the periodical. Later contributors included Dr. Charles Burney, John Cleland, Theophilus Cibber, James Grainger, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Elizabeth Moody, and Tobias Smollet. |
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... attended to by our Ame- fican brethren , as it appears to be , from repeated and manifest inftances . Among other proofs of the filial attachment of our colonics , to the mother - country , we cannot help regarding this American ...
... attended to by our Ame- fican brethren , as it appears to be , from repeated and manifest inftances . Among other proofs of the filial attachment of our colonics , to the mother - country , we cannot help regarding this American ...
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... attended by Mr. Rowarth , one of his majesty's mef- fengers . - Arriving at Harwich , June 4th , a gentleman met him there , by order of Lord B- , to make him his lordship's complimen's on his arrival in England , and to attend him to ...
... attended by Mr. Rowarth , one of his majesty's mef- fengers . - Arriving at Harwich , June 4th , a gentleman met him there , by order of Lord B- , to make him his lordship's complimen's on his arrival in England , and to attend him to ...
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... attended with , from the indifferent fuccefs of better pens.-Mr. Nevile , not- withstanding , has ventured to attempt that part of Virgil , which is certainly the most troublesome to the tranflator . The happy art of the poet in giving ...
... attended with , from the indifferent fuccefs of better pens.-Mr. Nevile , not- withstanding , has ventured to attempt that part of Virgil , which is certainly the most troublesome to the tranflator . The happy art of the poet in giving ...
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